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Eating Expired Yogurt

This will be the death of me.

Recently I discovered that Fage Greek yogurt is super good.  I was aware of how great Greek yogurt was, but this brand is exceptionally good.  I found this out when we were flying home from Boston, and grabbed a snack at the Newark airport.  My wife got a Greek yogurt, Fage Yogurt, for little baby Evie to eat because she could use the protein, or whatever.  So I shared it with her and was totally impressed with the stuff.  I went out later that day after getting home and grabbed another one for my near-future eating pleasure, and that one was totally good, as well.

So now, skip ahead to today, I went to the grocery store and got a Fage yogurt to enjoy whilst at work, like, this very moment that I'm typing this.  Well, I just pulled it out of the fridge and noticed that it has an expiration date of like, three weeks ago.  It's stamped "Jul 21 2012."  (it's August 11th, now)

I think I'm going to eat it anyway.  Well at least crack it open and see if it's looking or smelling funky.  If it looks okay, I'm totally going to eat it.  While at the store, I made a special journey from one end of the store all the way to the other end, specifically to get one of these yogurts.  I'm not letting that effort go to waste, damn it.

So if you don't hear from me soon, you'll know that I totally died from eating expired Greek yogurt.  If I died from it, just know that I loved you all very much, and thank you for reading my blogs.  But if I die, and this is my last post, I still want to say thank you and stuff, but I'm disappointed that you people don't click on my ads more often...I get paid for that, you know?

So this is goodbye, either just for now, or perhaps forever.  Fage Yogurt is good enough for me to die for, I guess.  

Bloggerated goes to Boston! A Video

Hey hey hey!  What's going on, everybody?  Came by today because I've worked hard on making a new video, and I now want you all to watch it.  This took a really long time to make, like, for real.  Partially because I was just about done making it and accidentally deleted everything I had been working on for two hours.  Had to restart from scratch.  But I think that it helped because it was like the rough draft that got deleted, and the final product is much better than what I was making in the first place, so I guess it's a good thing that happened.

Okay, no more typing for me and no more reading for you, let's get to the video!

A Tuesday in Boston in July

Okay, so yesterday after I wrote my post, I suddenly got really weirded out by the idea of leaving the hotel room. I don't know why, but suddenly I was afraid of humans, and I was sure I'd be laughed at for something. This was all in my head and it felt really strange. Well, once that passed, I did leave the hotel and It was a good day because of it.

I went over to the library, and I have to say, I was not that impressed. Nashville's library is more spectacularly laid out, but I suppose that's because its only like, 12 years old. This library is really old, and you could tell by how cramped it was. I'm fairly sure I didn't see what I was supposed to see, because all I saw was some stairs, some narrow corridors, a sweet courtyard in the middle, and a few books looking to be checked out by residents of the city of Boston. Big whoop. So tell me what I missed?

Anyway as I left I saw a food truck, so I got some food from it. It was a kale, garlic, squash flatbread pizza thing. pretty good, especially for $6.

Later on the whole family went and ate at a restaurant called Papa Razzi. It was tasty. Afterwards we walked up and down Newbury st, which has all these cool shops and stuff. Bethany got a tank top.

As we walked, we saw a place called Johnny Cupcakes. We both noticed that they had a cool cupcake and crossbones logo, and that was a nice design. On the back, we passed the shop again, and we both admitted we had intrigue about these cupcakes. Just as we were about to make the turn into the shop, some guy walked past us in a group and we both overheard him telling his group that three weren't any actual cupcakes in there, and without saying a word, bethany and I kept on walking past. We laughed at ourselves, because we were glad we didn't walk in there lookin like fatties lookin for cupcakes. I'm sure we wouldn't be the first. Turns out Johnny Cupcakes is a cool clothing company. Okay, good to know.

It was raining and that put the kibosh on or plan to go up to the top of the prudential tower and have a look at the city from above. That's been postponed until Thursday now. Instead, we sat around the hotel room and I drank strong beer, which got me drunk.

That all, thanks for reading. Have a good day. Going to the Red Sox game tonight. Should be a real highlight of my whole entire life.

Here's some pics.

Update from Beautiful Boston

One weird observation about this place is that I feel like this is a town that thrives on being cold. This seems like a great place to visit on the fall or winter. I don't really know why, but I just always imagined Boston as being perpetually September and October. Perhaps that's the baseball fan in me, where the only times I ever saw Boston was when the Red Sox were in the playoffs the past 10 years. Probably.

Anyway, after one day of mild exploration, and some major hotel chillin', I'm feeling a little bit more comfortable here. All I could think about yesterday was how "out of my comfort zone" I felt when walking around here. This is probably still true, but at least now I have a game plan today.

I think I'll take the grueling journey across the street to the oldest public library in the universe (or something like that) today. They say it's one of the "must-do" things while here, and since I'm already so close and it's (probably) free, count me in. I'm also thinking about going over to the prudential center and hitting up the observation deck. All the online reviews said it was cool and also a "go for it" on your Boston to-do list. This is also just a hop skip and jump from my current location. Buuuuut, It's. $14 a person...might do it anyway. Bethany can come with us to that and we can see the city in the evening or at night, because it's open until like, 10:30 or something like that.

Thought about going to the aquarium, but it's like $23... And Bethany can't come because they (for whatever dumb reason) close at five o'clock?!?!
That's dumb, bro. That's real dumb. It would give me an excuse to take the T, which I'm interested in doing, but, I'll have to find another excuse. I could do that without Bethany and it would be cheaper, but she said she'd be jealous if I did, so maybe I'll just leave that one off...

Okay so I'm sitting in a bath robe, Bethany had just delivered egg and cheese croissants me, so I think I'll go eat now.

Goodbye, from Boston!

Well, I'm Here

Okay, I'm here. Now what? I mean, I've got this whole city at my fingertips, and I don't expect anyone to honestly tell me what I'm supposed to be doing on my "vacation" but I really don't know what to do. Evie and I are going to take a walk and see what we find, but I don't have a plan.

One problem I have here is that it's cold. Really cold. Like, below 70 degrees, cold. That sucks.

We got free wifi in the room for some reason, so that's cool except we left the laptop at home. So, I'm blogging from my phone!

Another fun story, first thing I did last night upon entering the hotel room was pick up this bottle of Pino Noir that was on the desk. It wasn't until later that I noticed that everything is on sensors and the room gets automatically charged when you pick anything up, so we're probably getting charged for that. Dumb.

I'll leave you with a couple pics. See us later.

Shipping Up to Boston

Alright alright, today is travel day.  Travel day is my most favoriteist day of the year.  I just love flying.  I'd love to be like George Clooney in Up in the Air, just flying and flying and flying.  I just love it.

Anyway, I like the fact that I know in advance that today I will be making memories that go into the long-term memory bank instead of just the short-term one.  Knowing that is just the best feeling.  And I like how at the beginning of this post I wrote that "Travel day is my most favoriteist day of the year" as if it's promised that I'll travel no mater what.  That's not true, but it's sort of always been that way, hasn't it?  There is always some sort of traveling being done, throughout life.

I like that I remember most, if not all, of my trips that I've taken since being an older child.  I remember all the cool places, and even the not as cool places I've gone.  That's how I know that today, I'll be putting memories into the long-term bank, because I remember going to Green Bay and buying football jerseys for school clothes in 1996, for cryin' out loud.  I remember shit pretty easily.

So we're going to be in Boston, and I wanted to make sure I didn't miss out on the certain things you're supposed to do when in Boston, so I was trying to think of all things Boston that I knew about.  So while there, I gotta eat Boston cream pie, eat Boston baked beans, and drink Boston lager.  I hear you're supposed to eat clam chowder while there, and that's fine.  I like a good chowder.  That's all I came up with.  There has got to be more stuff than just that, right?  Seems kinda weak.

Well if you think of anything else boston-related, please let me know.  I'll be there, so if you need me to grab you anything, like a discounted Ray Allen jersey, or something, let me know.

Safe travels...to me!!!